The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, January 4, 1889 Ludlow 1/4/1889 A. J. BROWN has recently painted his house. John GOVE is driving the truck-team for Ira GODDARD. Miss M. A. GEEHAN is at home from Claremont, N. H. W. W. STICKNEY has moved his office from BROWN's block to HAMMOND block. A purse of some $60 has been raised by subscription for Thomas STONE. Mrs. Alice Barton PIPER, from Boston, is spending the holidays with her parents here. Ira GODDARD succeeds Will ADAMS as express messenger, with the advent of 1889. Hiland HOLDEN has moved his effects to Pittsford. We are are sorry to lose Mr. HOLDEN. Miss M. E. DALY has secured a place in Greenville, R. I., and went there yesterday. Whoever is minus a lantern, as the result of the WAKEFIELD-STONE fire, may recover it at this office. The Cooking Club watched the old year out and the new year in with the Misses SARGENT. George SPAFFORD is helping RAYMOND at the corner clothing store; Mr. PARKER being under the weather. Miss Lizzie HORAN, Emma DONELLY, Nellie CONLON and Kate FITZGERALD, from Rutland, have been in town this week. Episcopal services at G. A. R. hall, Sunday. Rev. Mr. ATWELL will officiate. Miss Ida WALKER is improving from her illness, under the care of her parents, who have come up from Chester to attend her. John DALY has been laid off for some days from his duties as baggage-master at the depot, by reason of a lame side. Now those who longed for an "open winter" are sighing for snow. Just a little--enough for good sleighing. Henry SCOTT has so far completed the east part of the new house that it is habitable, and is now, with his mother, once more installed on the old place. Messrs. G. W. BILLINGS and John LOMBARD left town, Wednesday morning, for Boston. From there, Mr. BILLINGS will probably make his annual visit to a warmer clime, making Washington his headquarters. The suit of Peter P. and Daniel H. WHEELER against the estate of the late Bailey W. MERRILL has been settled by the estate paying the petitioners $500 and $200 attorney fees. The WHEELERs are relatives of Mrs. MERRILL, whose estate it was believed had been absorbed by Mr. MERRILL. John McGOWAN at Grahamville, has become infected by the spirit of improvement generated by H. L. WARNER's new buildings, and has "slicked up" his premises wonderfully, removing the front fence, painting the house, etc. It is, really, the most striking metamorphosis brought to our attention for some time. Drs. LANE and BRYANT have been in daily consultation with Dr. COOTEY at the bedside of Mrs. W. B. HOSKISON, in Healdville, for some ten days. Mrs. H. has been at death's door from peritonitis, the probable result of a fall; but in spit of all the doctors she is now out of danger, and in the natural order of things will get well. The full board of officers of Black River lodge, F. & A. M. , both elective and appointive, as installed Tuesday evening, is as follows: John BELL, W. M.; F. O. KNIGHT, S. W.; L. C. HOWE, J. W.; C. H. HOWARD, secretary; W. D. BELL, treasurer; N. G. HAMMOND, S. D. ; A. H. LOCKWOOD, J. D.; L. G. PIERCE, S. S. ; R. M. WILDER, J. S. ; Oscar GASSETT, marshal; A. C. HESSELTON, chaplain; M. G. DAY, tyler. Geo. W. PERRY's illustrated lecture "The Angel in the Stone," at Hammond hall, Wednesday evening, was not as well attended as it deserved. Marble, its geological formation and the various uses to which it is put, formed the theme of the discourse. O. O. Howard W. R. C., No. 11, at its annual meeting, Dec. 15th, elected the following officers: Mary W. GOULD, president; Jennie S. FULLER, S. V. P.; Emma D. WEEKS, J. V. P.; Louisa M. BARRETT, secretary; Clara HATHORN, treasurer; Almira STONE, chaplain; Martha LAWRENCE, conductor; Louisa TARBELL, guard; delegate to dept., Martha LAWRENCE; alternate Augusta BRYANT; Rhoda MOORE, organist. In lieu of 25 cents that we owe him, E. L. WILDER wants us to show up what a mean cuss B. F. WHELDEN is for sawing off a hitching-post "on the line" between their respective lots--the same line that has made most of the lawyers of this part of the state rich, as a result of litigation. It is now in order for WHELDEN to give us a quarter and have WILDER shown up. We will guarantee they can get twice as much satisfaction out of printer's ink as the law, and at one-tenth the expense. Thos. KENWORTHY was called to Steinway, L. I., Monday, by the sad intelligence of the death of his son Charles, at that place. Beyond the bare announcement of the fact by telegram, Sunday night, nothing obtainable, Mr. K. not having returned at this writing. It is a great blow to the parents, in their old age, and the sympathy of many friends it theirs. Deceased was a "Ludlow boy," and a general favorite among associates here. It is but a few months since he visited his old home here with his bride. Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton [email protected] Dummerston, VT